Marshall Grant

Marshall Grant ( * May 5, 1928; † August 7, 2011 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) played bass in the backing band of country musician Johnny Cash, the Tennessee Three.

Biography

Grant grew up with eleven brothers and sisters in Bessemer City, North Carolina. In 1946, he married Etta May Dickerson; the couple had a son. In 1947 the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where Grant worked as an auto mechanic.

Grant played guitar in his spare time, and along with Luther Perkins they called themselves the " Tennessee Two". About Roy Cash, who worked as a car salesman, like Perkins, they learned his younger brother Johnny Cash know. 1955 received Perkins and Grant together with Johnny Cash a record deal with the label Sun Records; Grant had in the meantime changed from guitar to bass.

Also known as a composer, Grant operated successfully, he wrote for Cash and his wife June Carter Cash duet Long Legged Guitar Pickin ' Man. Marshall Grant left in 1980 to 1960 the drummer WS Holland had grown and in " Tennessee Three" renamed band in the late 1968 guitarist Perkins was replaced by Bob Wootton. In 1999 he stood for the last time together with cash and Holland on the stage; Cash died in 2003.

Grant was from the 1980s until her retirement from the music business in 2002, manager of the Statler Brothers, who were members in the 1960s and 1970s, the Johnny Cash Show. In 2005 he published his autobiography I Was There When It Happened - My Life With Johnny Cash.

Marshall Grant and his wife lived in Hernando, Mississippi. Shortly before his death he traveled to Arkansas to sample the Johnny Cash Music Festival to attend before he was admitted to the hospital in Jonesboro, where Grant died of an aneurysm on August 7, 2011 at the age of 83 years.